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Zhang Dongguan was originally a cook in Pufu's family in Suzhou, and he was especially good at weaving official dishes. Emperors Kangxi and Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty loved traveling to the south of the Yangtze River, and Suzhou was the place where they stayed the longest.

Whenever the emperor traveled, local governments would send elite chefs to perform for the emperor. It was under this background that Zhang Dongguan came into Qianlong's discernment. After Emperor Qianlong tasted his cooking during his 30-year tour to the south, he was full of praise. When he returned to Beijing, he also took him back to Kyoto, became the imperial chef, and arranged for him to live in the Xining home of Changlu Yanzheng.

According to the"Qianlong Jiangnan Festival Regular Meals", Qianlong's fourth southern tour was on the seventeenth day of the first lunar month in the thirtieth year of Qianlong's reign.

When you look through the"Meal List for the First Month of the Forty-Eighth Emperor Qianlong", you will find that there is a person whose name appears particularly frequently, and this is Zhang Dongguan. In Emperor Qianlong's daily meal menu, the first dish must be signed by Zhang Dongguan and Shuang Lin. Even in places such as Mingyuan and Summer Resort, Zhang Dongguan prepared meals for Emperor Qianlong. There are also records in the archives of multiple orders directed to Zhang Dongguan to add more dishes.

In the short period from the 11th to the 28th of the first lunar month, Zhang Dongguan's name appeared a total of 27 times. The emperor could not have a meal without Zhang Dongguan."On the eleventh day of the first lunar month, we have dinner with Tongyuan. We use a lacquered flower dining table and place a hot pot of duck stewed with diced meat and wine (made by Zhang Dongguan). On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, we invite you to come at the second quarter of the first lunar month. Chunhuaxuan enters on the twelfth day of the first lunar month. Breakfast. Use a lacquered flower dining table, place bird's nests and five-spice duck hot pot (made by Zhang Dongguan). On the third quarter of the first lunar month, we will have dinner with Tongyuan. Use a lacquered flower dining table, place bird's nests and stew the duck in wine. The first dish of hot pot (made by Zhang Dongguan). On the 18th day of the first lunar month, at the second quarter of the lunar month, we had dinner with Tongyuan. We used a lacquered flower dining table and placed the first dish of hot pot (made by Zhang Dongguan) with yam, fire-smoked onions, peppers and duck.

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